Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Japan: DoCoMo added 102k new users in February to a total of 52.3m, but KDDI added 224k new users to a total of 27.7m and Softbank increased its subscriber base by 120k to 15.8m. The total number of mobile users in the country rose to 95.8m. Spain had...

Neuf Cegetel (France) reports results over target. 2006 revenues were at €2.9bn, up 5%, of which the Consumer division reported revenues of €872m, up 18%, Enterprise reported €971m, up 7%. EBITDA of €544m, up 131%, EBITDA margin of 20% and net income...

Nokia has named Mark Louison to lead its device business in North America and head Nokia Inc.. ALU has appointed Christian Reinaudo as the President of the company’s Europe and North activities. He will also continue in his current role as Integration...

The worldwide Internet population continues to grow, and its weight is shifting from Western Countries to Emerging markets. There were 747m Internet users in the world in January 2007, it is up 10% over 2006. Top five countries are respectively USA with...

A new acronym you need to know. FTTA means Fiber-trough-the Air, and could the future technology of choice. It is a broadband (up to 100 Mbit/s) wireless technology using satellite frequency bands, allowing triple play services, multi channel HD video...

A few set of market information released this week: According to Telephia, 20% of mobile users want to browse the Web from their handset. According to comScore, there were 747m Internet users, age 15+, worldwide (+10%). According to MRG, there will be...

Motorola recommends shareholders not to sign any mandate asked by any Icahn Entities, and does not plan to welcome billionaire investor Carl Icahn in its board. IBM is on the buying spree. It plans to continue external growth after buying 13 companies...

Nortel has signed a reseller and marketing agreement with NDS, an IPTV middleware maker. Nortel will resell NDS' s Metro middleware products. Nortel, however, will continue relationship with Minerva as well. Always as part of its IPTV strategy, Nortel...

GoWare is introducing its DoMo platform to allow mobile users to create their own custom mobile Web portals and ease Web browsing. LG Electronics, Intel and Toshiba have joined the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP). Wavecom has developed a GSM module...

ALU (Alcatel-Lucent) has completed TDC' s nationwide IPTV infrastructure deployment to 1.6m households. ALU has provided its OmniSwitch 6850 solution for the IP network of the University of Technology in Sydney. ALU and LGS, ALU' s subsidiary dedicated...